eprintid: 1418185
rev_number: 45
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datestamp: 2014-01-27 15:36:13
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type: article
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creators_name: Maxwell, N
title: How universities can help create a wiser world
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F58
keywords: Academic revolution, Knowledge, Wisdom, Global problems, Social inquiry, Natural science, The university, Aims of inquiry, Problems of living
abstract: The crisis of our times is that we have science without wisdom. Modern science and technology lead to modern industry and agriculture which in turn lead to all the great benefits of the modern world and to the global crises we face, from population growth to climate change. The fault lies, not with science, but with science dissociated from a more fundamental concern with problems of living. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in academia so that the fundamental task becomes to help humanity learn how to tackle problems of living in increasingly cooperatively rational ways, so that we may gradually discover how to make progress towards a better, wiser world.
date: 2014-01-23
publisher: TSL Education
official_url: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/a-revolutionary-mission-statement-improve-the-world/2010674.article
vfaculties: VMPS
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_source: Manually entered
elements_id: 923872
medium: Print
lyricists_name: Maxwell, Nicholas
lyricists_id: ANMAX22
full_text_status: public
publication: Times Higher Education
volume: No. 21
place_of_pub: London, UK
pagerange: 30
pages: 1
event_location: UK
citation:        Maxwell, N;      (2014)    How universities can help create a wiser world.                   Times Higher Education , No. 21    p. 30.          Green open access   
 
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